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Vt. barber says not good at cutting blacks' hair W/Poll

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What do you think?

  • Racist Pig

  • Good guy trying to do the right thing.

  • It's his business, he can do what he wants.

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I'm having a hard time trying to decide who's stupider, the barber for not being up front with the guy or the two dozen people who demonstrated.
 
grrl said:
I'm having a hard time trying to decide who's stupider, the barber for not being up front with the guy or the two dozen people who demonstrated.
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I'd say the protesters who assumed the guy is racist for not having a skill set. The barber probably not being up front is bad, but being ignorant of all the facts and having knee jerk reactions is worse.
 
Considering the really shitty haircuts that I consistently get here I could believe that this can be true. Still, instead of refusing the haircut he should just issued a warning.
 
If a lady went into this barber shop and asked for the latest trendy cut and got shot down because again the guy probably wouldn't know how to style a womans hair it would essentially be the same thing. Well except for the media coverage and protest.

Or how about a white male in an area thats 97% black walking into a barber shop owned by a black proprietor? Do you: A. Think he would be able to get his hair cut? B. Think it would be news if he didn't? Although I'll probably be labeled a racist for even making that comparison.
 
Did anybody even read the story or just go off what the OP framed?

This is the big part that the OP left out...

"Aldrich was playing cards with a friend, and Fisher asked if the barber was in. Aldrich said no, and Fisher went on his way. Later, walking past, Fisher saw through the front window that the man who'd told him the barber was out was cutting the hair of a white customer."

The barber did not say his skill set was not good as the OP and he would like you to think. He saw the black guy and said the barber is not in.

I love how everyone thinks they know what happened yet did not even read the full story. Not saying the barber or the Dr are right/wrong, but damm people at least get ALL the facts. Of course as many people that watch fox and believe anything they say it does not surprise me.
 
Aldrich was playing cards with a friend, and Fisher asked if the barber was in. Aldrich said no, and Fisher went on his way. Later, walking past, Fisher saw through the front window that the man who'd told him the barber was out was cutting the hair of a white customer.
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everyone is overlooking that little bit of info from the article. The barber lied and was found out latter on. If he had been honest from the start and said that he was no good at cutting that type of hair, it most likely would of been a non issue.
 
dawp said:
everyone is overlooking that little bit of info from the article. The barber lied and was found out latter on. If he had been honest from the start and said that he was no good at cutting that type of hair, it most likely would of been a non issue.
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And of course the reason he lied was because he's a racist and not because he feared that if he was up front and honest with the customer he would potentially be accused of racism. How about giving the barber the benefit of the doubt and assume he figured a quick lie would allow him to avoid a potential uncomfortable confrontation?
 
Linflas said:
And of course the reason he lied was because he's a racist and not because he feared that if he was up front and honest with the customer he would potentially be accused of racism. How about giving the barber the benefit of the doubt and assume he figured a quick lie would allow him to avoid a potential uncomfortable confrontation?
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Yea a lie that can easily be proven a lie is much better than the truth. 😵
 
Marlin1975 said:
Yea a lie that can easily be proven a lie is much better than the truth. 😵
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Did I say it was better? The guy was confronted with a situation he didn't want to deal with and obviously in hindsight he would have been better off just telling the guy straight up that he had no experience cutting black peoples hair. People make mistakes all the time including the mistake of leaping to the conclusion of racism whenever confronted with any situation involving race.
 
Honestly?

The barber is probably mildly racist and was uncomfortable about trying to do something he was unfamiliar with and also uncomfortable with the reaction he thought (and did) get.

Barring actually being there and hearing the conversation, this was a grand waste of 5 minutes of my life.

TYVM, Pass the popcorn.
 
He should have just given him an awful haircut. If his claimed motive in genuine, I understand why he didn't but now he has a news story about him apparently being a racist. No one would have written a new story about a small town barber giving a black guy a bad haircut.
 
Sounds like the guy didn't want to stop playing cards to me. Speaking as someone who is also in the service industry, I would be wary of a black Doctor as well. In my experience educated black people have seemed to be the pickiest customers of the lot.
 
Think it's time for the Feds to step in and make things right. Have a national exam for barbers that they have to pass, in which they cut all types of hair. maybe have certificates for different kind of hair cut.
 
JTsyo said:
Think it's time for the Feds to step in and make things right. Have a national exam for barbers that they have to pass, in which they cut all types of hair. maybe have certificates for different kind of hair cut.
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Don't forget the yearly licensing fee at each performance level, cumulative of course, and the continuing education requirements that have to be met to renew the license.
 
IceBergSLiM said:
Since when are there black people in vermont? I'm calling shens.
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thats because the doctor was not from Vermont.

anyway i think the doctor id the racist bastard. he should know the odds of a white guy from a 98% white area is NOT going to know how to cut his hair. then what does he do? notifiy the newspaper?

is he out for a "payday"? no. but i do think he is a guy who looks for racist action to point out all the time.
 
Any proof, or are we speculating up trees?

Does it matter what we think?

Does this have any impact on ANY of us anywhere besides in that community?

Is this thing on?
 
question, if the barber worked at a car repair joint and worked on fords and chevys all day. Would the black Doctor be crying foul play if his ferrari was turned away. probably not.
 
What if a woman walked in and asked for the latest hairdo. If he said he didn't know how to do it would he be considered a sexist too?
 
RaistlinZ said:
The barber was just being honest, and trying to do the guy a favor.
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And another person that did not read the full story...

"Aldrich was playing cards with a friend, and Fisher asked if the barber was in. Aldrich said no, and Fisher went on his way. Later, walking past, Fisher saw through the front window that the man who'd told him the barber was out was cutting the hair of a white customer."


So no he was not honest.
 
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